Motif
avoidance of extremes as path of happiness
avoidance_of_extremes_as_path_of_happiness
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Republic BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24427-24481 confidence: medium
The narrator says to choose the life that makes the soul more just, carry adamantine faith in truth and right into the world below, avoid wealth and other evil allurements, choose the mean, and avoid extremes as the way of happiness.
The narrator advises choosing the mean and avoiding extremes in this life and in what is to come, calling this the way of happiness.
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